Trend Micro was first to publish three of the Hacking Team Flash bugs. The company’s chief cybersecurity officer Tom Kellermann likens the history of laxness of Adobe’s security practices in light of Flash’s popularity to poisoning the water supply for all of a village’s wells.

“The dark web is impressively expansive and organizations of this size, conducting schemes of this magnitude, are hidden throughout it in unprecedented numbers,” said Trend Micro chief cybersecurity officer, Tom Kellermann. “With the amount of exploit kits on the market today, the financial sector must...

On the other hand, the European Union, with its Right to Be Forgotten rules, has a "much more stringent framework than we do in the United States because we let companies get away with a lot more" here, says Paul Ferguson, a senior threat research advisor at Trend Micro....

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Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back each Friday for...

At Trend Micro it’s always been our job to work out where the next threat is coming from, so we can offer the best protection possible to our customers. Sometimes people listen to us at shows and say: “Seriously? That’s never happened to us.” But that’s the point. It hasn’t … yet. Who would have...

Trend Micro researchers are now disclosing additional details about one of the vulnerabilities (CVE-2015-3824) in the so-called “Stagefright” cluster affecting Android users. The “Stagefright” vulnerability is actually a marketing label for a cluster of seven individual vulnerabilities. One of the vulnerabilities in this cluster, CVE-2015-3824, was independently discovered by Trend Micro’s research team at the...